[WWW-Vrml] [x3d-public] 360 Video

[cbullard at hiwaay.net]

It can be faked out but better to implement it as a node to make the  
content developer’s life easy.

Not sure about what machines have what horsepower, but we had to be  
very very parsimonious in the early days of VRML for hardware reasons.
I think those are going away.

For current work I am using simply VRML97. In this application it is  
straightforward to green the background then chroma key in post when  
mixing video and audio (say a YouTube rendering for mp4). For screen  
capture video resources, it works ok and because of the Latin Effect,  
the tools, the platform and the content are solid as a rock.  For the  
new generation of HMDs, I don’t see enough discussion of it related to  
X3D or VRML97 to know how that integrates,  They seem to be from here  
determined to go the way of every piece of content being it's own  
application.

A less worthy of the investment in the content sustainment  
architecture I cannot imagine.

This much is true:  when Carey and Bell sat down to make Inventor into  
an HTML for 3D, they succeeded wildly.   It is compact, powerful,  
easily learned, view source friendly and has the cleanest IP of any  
standard on the web.  And it still works almost three decades later as  
does all of the content that adheres to it.  VR for The People.  They  
hit that part out of the park.  Innovation churn does not cause VRML  
to wobble.

For those of us in the indie music world, this is gold left out on the  
village square without fences.

len